ABSTRACT
During the last decade of his life, Antonio Gardano continued to publish music books of fine quality whose contents reflected not only favorite music of the past, but also the work of younger composers new to his press. In fact, the 1560s were especially productive: the firm saw at least 187 editions through the press in that decade, compared with 108 in the 1550s and 143 in the 1540s. One hundred and nine of the editions from the 1560s were newly printed (see table 2-1). While production of new editions slackened somewhat in the middle of the decade, Gardano printed substantial numbers of new works in his last years. In 1569, the final year in which he was involved with the press, he produced a total of 27 editions, 13 of them new, the most he had ever printed in a single year. In 1567 he had published 17 new editions, and in 1568, 13.
